Leather shoe.



N0 MODEL PATENTBD JUNE 16, 1903. H. 0. JENNEY.

LEATHER 3HOE.

APPLIGATIOR FILED FEB. 10 1903.

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UNirEn STATE Patented. June 16. 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

LEATHER SH O E.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 730,919,:1ated June 16, 1903.

Application filed February 10, 1903. finial No. 142,775- (No model.)

joined at or below the lower end of the open-,

ing to the vamp, said shoes being provided with a tongue or flap at the opening and being ordinarily secured to the foot by lacing. 'I'nshoes of this character there has been general complaint, especially by those whose feet are tender, of the bunch or inward protuberance extending against the upper side of the foot and produced by the additional thickness formed by the meeting of the lower ends-of the stay tongue and quarter under the vampseam immediately below the end of the opening-of the vamp. It will be seen, therefore, that just at this point there are our thicknesses of 1eather-the stay, the tongue, the quarterand the vamp-besides the thickness produced by the seam of the vamp, while inst below this point there is but one thickness of leather-Adz. that of the vamp. It is evident that in heavy work this objection is comparatively greater, although the complaint as to the additional thickness at this point is quite common by wearers of medium and, light shoes. 4

It is the-principal object of my invention to obviate this difiiculty by doing away at that point with the lower ends or edges of the stay and quarter and extending only the tongue at its lower end under the vamp without making anyradi cal change in the appearance of the shoe, but adding to the beauty and finish, and at the same time doing away with the principal objection made to lace shoes. Moreover, as in myimprovement the quarter does not extend down under the vamp the danger of splitting the vamp down longitudinally is avoided. This splitting occurs in the ordinary construction because the edges of the quarter gap at the lower end under the vamp and strain the vamp at its upper edge at that. point, withthc oifect that the stitches give way and the vamp splits. In my device as the quarter does not extend under thcup-.

per edge of the vamp there is no opening below the vamp and no strain to split it.

1 The nature of the invention is fully'described in detail below and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of a lace shoe embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view of that portion of the shoe in which the invention or improvement is located. Fig. 3 tie a section taken on iine X, Fig. 2.. Fig. 34:

:stituting the quarter. Fig. 5 is a similar view ,of the tongue.

, Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

a represents the vamp; b, the quarter; 0, the stays on the inner surface of the quarter on the opposite sides of the gap or opening d,

and e the tongue.

The front portion of the lower edges or the quarter I; instead of extending down under the upper edge aof the vamp for a certain distance each side of the opening dsay between the points sextend down nearly or quite to said edge, but do. not underlap it, the lower edge practically abutting against the upper edge a of the vamp, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. The stays a on opposite sides of the opening (Z extend down as far as the lower edges of thequarter in substantially the manner indicated in Fig. 3, their lower edges ending within the fold produced by the ordinary seam with which the lower edge .of the quarter is preferably provided, a similar seam be= in g preferably provided at the upper edge of the vamp. The lower edge or end of the tongue 6 is broadened at e and extends beyond the lower edges of the two'portions of the quarter and stays and underlaps the vamp to a suitable distance, as indicated by dotted lines e" in Fig. 2, and is stitched thereto, as represented at f in Fig. The tongue therefore produces the only additional thickness of leather which is below or under the vamp. The tongue is stitched not only to the vamp, but to the quarter, the line of stitching which secures it to the quarter beinglindicated at g, Fig. 3, and at h, Figs. 1 and 2, there are diagonal stay-stitchings for the purpose of preventing the tongue from breaking away from the quarter-at the lower on d of the openis a plan view of one of the two portions con-- b of each portion of the quarter form a lacing-opening, a continuous Vamp, said vamp and quarter having their edges ing. It will be seen that by reason of this construction and arrangement there is "no opening below the vamp, as the quarter stops at the upper edge of the vamp, and hence there is no strain or tendency to split the vamp, and thatthe greater .portion 011 the thickness or bunch produced at or below the upper edge of the Vamp is done away with, in-

asmuch as the tongue only extends across the joint and under the vamp.

Of course it will'be understood in examining Fig. 3 of the drawings that the parts are necessarily exaggerated in thickness. V

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- 1; In a front-laced snoe','-'a quarter divided infront to form a laeing-openin g, a continuous vamp, free from said quarter 'fdra suitable distance on each side of said lacing-opening, the adjacent edges of said vamp and quarter abutting, and a tongue beneath the quarter and-the abutting'edges of the vamp andquar-' ter, spanning the lacing openin g, extending a short distance under the vamp, and secured to said vamp and quarter near their abutting edges. 4

2. Ina front-laced shoe, a quarter divided to abutting for a suitable distance on each side of the lacing-opening but freefrom each other, stays secured beneath the'quarter at the edges ofth-e lacing-opening, extending to but not under the vamp, and a tongue beneath said quarter and stays, spanning the lacingopening, extending a short distance beneath the vamp, and secured to said vamp and quar-.

ter near their abutting edges, whereby a ridge across the foot is dispensed with, and the vamp is secured against splitting by force applied to separate the quarter members.

3. In a front-laced shoe, a quarter divided in front to form a lacing-opening, a continuous vamp, free from said quarter for a suitable distance on each side of said lacing-opening, but with the respective edges abutting, stays secured beneath the quarter members on each 'side-of the'lacing-opening, extending to but not under said vamp, a tongue spanning said 5 a lacir'ig-openingbeneath the quarter, extend ing a'short distance under the vamp-,lsecured 

